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Wm. Paul Young Biography

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“If you are able to judge God so easily, you certainly can judge the world. You must choose two of your children to spend eternity in God's new heavens and new earth....And you must choose three of your children to spend eternity in hell..... I am only asking you to do something that you believe God does. He knows every person ever conceived, and he knows them so much more deeply and clearly than you will ever know your own children...You believe he will condemn most to an eternity of torment, away from his presence and apart from his love." Mack: "I don't want to be the judge... I can't do this." You suppose then that God does this so easily, but you cannot?" This couldn't be real. How could God ask him to choose among his own children? Even if Katie or Josh, or Jon or Tyler committed some heinous crime, he still wouldn't do it. He couldn't! For him, it wasn't about their performance; it was about his love for them. Mack: "I can't, I can't....Could I go instead?....I'll go in their place...Could I do that?" He fell at her feet crying and begging now. "Please let me go for my children..I am begging you. Please...Please..." -"Now you sound like Jesus.....That is how Jesus loves.”

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Book:The Shack
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“It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainty out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.”

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“He doesn’t stop a lot of things that cause him pain. Your world is severely broken. You demanded your independence, and now you are angry with the one who loved you enough to give it to you. Nothing is as it should be, as Papa desires it to be, and as it will be one day. Right now your world is lost in darkness and chaos, and horrible things happen to those that he is especially fond of… Papa has never needed evil to accomplish his good purposes. It is you humans who have embraced evil and Papa has responded with goodness. What happened to Missy was the work of evil and no one in your world is immune from it.” ~Sophia”

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Book:The Shack
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“Kokią teisę jis turi ką nors teisti? Žinoma, kažkiek jis iš tikrųjų yra kaltas, kad teisė beveik visus, kuriuos sutikdavo, ir daug tų, kurių nė nebuvo matęs. Makas žinojo, kad didžiausia jo kaltė - jo egocentrizmas. Tad kaip jis gali teisti kitą? Visi jo vertinimai - paviršutiniški, paremti išvaizda ir elgesiu, kuriuos galima aiškinti taip, kad pasijustum pranašesnis, saugesnis arba kokios nors grupės dalis. Jam taip pat buvo aišku, kad jis bijo.”

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Book:The Shack
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“I may have convinced myself or been convinced by others that I deserve to be separated from God. Such lies will bring with them a shadow in which I experience a sense of separation, feelings that seem to validate the illusion that God is not connected and in relationship with me or that God has stopped loving me or has given up on me. Many of us on the planet live in this illusion now.”

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Book:Lies We Believe About God
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“(...) Ou então, se quiseres aprofundar só um pouco mais, podemos falar sobre a natureza da liberdade propriamente dita. Será que liberdade significa que tens permissão para fazer o que queres? Ou podemos falar de todas as influências limitadoras que se opõem activamente à tua liberdade. Ou da herança genética da tua família, o teu ADN específico, a especificidade do teu metabolismo, as questões quânticas que ocorrem a um nível subatómico e onde eu sou a única observadora omnipresente. Ou da intrusão da doença que inibe a tua alma e te deixa manietado, ou das influências sociais que te rodeiam, ou dos hábitos que criaram ligações sinápticas no teu cérebro. E há também a publicidade, as campanhas de propaganda e os paradigmas. No meio desta confluência de inibidores multifacetados - concluiu, suspirando - o que é, de facto, a liberdade?”

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“There is something joyful about storms, that interrupt routine. Snow or freezing rain suddenly releases you from expectations, performance demands, and the tyranny of appointments and schedules. And unlike illness, it is largely a corporate, rather than individual experience. One could almost hear a unified sigh rise from the nearby city and surrounding countryside, where nature has intervened to give respite to the weary humans slogging it out within her purview. All those affected this way are united by a mutual excuse, and the heart is suddenly, and unexpectedly, a little giddy. There will be no apologies needed for not showing up to some commitment or other. Everyone understands and shares in this singular justification, and the sudden alleviation of the pressure to produce makes the heart merry. ... Even if it's hardly more than a day or two, somehow each person feels like the master of his or her own world, simply because those little droplets of water freeze as they hit the ground. Even commonplace activities become extraordinary. Routine choices become adventures and are often experienced with a sense of heightened clarity.”

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“The old must be torn down for the new to be raised; to have a resurrection you must have a crucifixion, but God wastes nothing, not even the wrong we have imagined into existence. In every building torn down there is much that remains that was once true and right and good, and that gets woven into the new; in fact, the new could not be what it is without the old. It is the refurbishing of the soul.”

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Book:Cross Roads
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